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How do we know if racism really exists? And, if it does, how big a problem is it for the outcomes of people of colour? Only science has the answers to some of society’s most pressing questions.
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A brilliant new theory of how society works from one of the most iconoclastic thinkers of our time.
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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz shows how big data can help us find answers to some of the most important questions we face – and how these answers can radically improve our lives. From happiness to dating, money to sex, health to spirituality, this is self-help as we’ve never seen it before.
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How many people have died because of COVID-19? Which countries have been hit hardest by the virus? What are the benefits and harms of different vaccines? How does COVID-19 compare to the Spanish flu? How have the lockdown measures affected the economy, mental health and crime? This year we have been bombarded by statistics – seven day rolling averages, rates of infection, excess deaths. Never have numbers been more central to our national conversation, and never has it been more important that we think about them clearly. In the media and in their Observer column, Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter and RSS Statistical Ambassador Anthony Masters have interpreted these statistics, offering a vital public service by giving us the tools we need to make sense of the virus for ourselves and holding the government to account.
